Monster Energy tix for SuperX at Gillette Stadium are available for the April 21 2018 event

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Dec 1, 2017 at 4:52 PM

Track Talk By Lou Modestino (for Sat. 12/2/17) Check out Lou Modestino's Track Talk blog at http://www.enterprisenews.com/section/blogs01?taxid=1838 Monster Energy Supercross tickets are already on sale for the event to be held on Sat., April 21, 2018 at Gillette Stadium. The race was last held there in 2015 but absent during 2017. However, the supercross is returning next April 2018. Though the month [...]

Monster Energy Supercross tickets are already on sale for the event to be held on Sat., April 21, 2018 at Gillette Stadium. The race was last held there in 2015 but absent during 2017. However, the supercross is returning next April 2018. Though the month of April is tricky with the weather, we are not aware of a rain date. However, the event is held on a on a Saturday. If there's a Northeaster on race day it could go the next day on Sunday, April 22.

Then we heard from a good source that motorcycle racing will also return to the Brockton Fairgrounds on Sunday, April 22 in the form of a Super Moto which will involve using a dirt and paved race course. Our source didn't feel that any of the Supercross riders would compete in that event while the northeast riders would do so, giving them two events in the region on the same weekend. We spoke to the promoter Bob Stengel of Bridgewater about the Super Moto event. “I've got two experienced Super Moto track designers and there should be no problems designing a track at the Brockton Fairgrounds,” said Stengel.The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will take the green flag on the 2018 season at South Carolina's Myrtle Beach Speedway in mid-March and the schedule will feature 16 championship points races at nine different venues.The champion will once again be crowned at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, as the .625-mile hosts the 56th Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing on Sunday, Oct. 14.

The calendar spotlight's some of the northeast's iconic short tracks including three fast southern venues and features the longest distance race in tour history as the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour takes center stage at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September for a 250-lap showdown.

'Year in and year out, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour puts on some of the most exciting and pulse-pounding action in racing, and we are looking forward to the 2018 season,' said Jim Cassidy, NASCAR vice president of racing operations. 'We've made some tweaks in the dates to alleviate some of the schedule congestion to better help teams work through the season. In 2017 we saw six drivers enter the final race of the season with a shot at the title, and we're eager to watch that high level of competition continuing next season.'

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour's return to Seekonk Speedway in Massachusetts has been moved from August to June 2. The date change means the tour will only have one instance where it will race three weeks in a row, and will have at least a weekend off between races on 10 different occasions.

Last year the tour began its new unified era with the season opener at Myrtle Beach. South Carolina's semi-banked half-mile oval. It held its first NASCAR event in 1958, and will once again host the opener on Saturday, March 17.

Earlier this summer, NASCAR and New Hampshire Motor Speedway announced the tour will be the headliner on Saturday, Sept. 22 as part of a special event that will also include the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and NASCAR Pinty's Series.

The NASCAR Whelen Modifeid Tour will also visit New Hampshire in July with a championship points race as well as the annual invitational non-points All-Star Shootout. The tour will also be part of the national series weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.

After Myrtle Beach, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will return to New England for two of the staple weekends of the early racing season: The 44th Annual Icebreaker at Thompson and the 47th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Spring Sizzler at Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway will take place.

The tour will make four stops at Thompson, and three at Stafford.

The tour schedule also features two races at Long Island's Riverhead Raceway, a bullring known for their high-intensity, close-quarters Modified action as well as return trips to New York's Oswego Speedway and Virgina's Langley Speedway in Hampton. The Sept. 22 race at NHMS will pay the winner of that 250 mile event $25,000.

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour television broadcast schedule on NBCSN will be announced at a later date.

Today Saturday, Dec. 2 the MA Mutual Center in Springfield offers a Racer's Auction and Trade Show starting at 9 am. On hand will be tracks and tours among other related racing vendors. Promoter Joe Lowendowski is also trying to organize a new Light Sk Modified Tour and that effort will be front and center at today's event.(end)

Information for this column came from press releases and personal notes

Note: If your track, tour or event is not posted on this blog send your press releases and flyers to: lmodestino@hotmail.com

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